These newly discovered reefs are potentially of global significance." Researchers stunned after uncovering 'significant' deep ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate ...

Researchers report they have recently described a pale, ghostly blue damselfish living in the deep-sea reefs of the Maldives. Chromis abadhah in its natural habitat in Faadhippolhu Atoll, Maldives, at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

Scientists have discovered 20 potential new species at some of the deepest points of the Pacific Ocean, which is expected to increase after final DNA analysis. The species were identified using 13 of ...

The world's largest deep-sea coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast: a massive 6.4 million acre seascape that stretches from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, according to National ...

If you think Charleston, South Carolina, has plenty of history within its pre-Colonial grounds, just look at what's been hiding 160 miles off the city's coast for thousands of years: a giant deep-sea ...

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways Christian Elliott A variety of marine creatures and unique features can be found in the ...

Saturday is World Reef Awareness Day, and many of my colleagues and I are calling for President Joe Biden to protect the deep-sea coral treasures of the Southeast — the more than 80,000 coral mounds ...

Scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for Wildlife (NCW) report in PNAS NEXUS an unusual ecosystem below the third largest coral reef ...